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Leon Brown - Operations Director TWCC UK

Leon studied Geology, Ocean Sciences and Meteorology at Plymouth in the early 80s and became a keen sailor, often sailing across Plymouth Sound to Cornwall. He then studied for an MSc in Applied Meteorology and Climatology at Birmingham University before becoming an operational Meteorologist. He has now been forecasting all aspects of the weather for the past 25 years, and through the 90s helped produce and present TV weather for the ITV Network in the UK. In the late 90s he was a producer/presenter for the Weather Channel in London. Since 2000 he has managed a forecasting team in Birmingham, UK for TWCC producing forecasts for the media, aviation and energy industries in Europe. He loves the outdoors and has a keen interest in painting and photography. For his BSc degree he spent a summer camping high in the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland studying one of Britain's most extreme climates.

Leon holding his son James during the Jubilee in 2002.(Photo Credit: Leon Brown archive)